Development of Clinic Based Health Promotion Program in Kitakyushu, Japan

The health reform program in 2006 was the biggest one for the last 30 years in Japan. According to the plan a nation-wide health promotion program for healthier population will be introduced. As a main program of health promotion, the specified health checkup and follow-up health guidance and intervention program will be introduced from 2008. This program is a Japanese disease management program. However, it is predicted that the new program will face to a number of operational difficulties, especially in the community setting, where not so much resources are available. In order to make the system more practical and operational, we have developed the clinic based health promotion program under the collaboration of local medical association, local government, and university. In this article the authors presents the general feature of this new program.